Government Motives Quotes

I don't think the government is out to get me or help someone else get me but it wouldn't surprise me if they were out to sell me something or help someone else sell me something. I mean, why else would the Census Bureau want to know my telephone number?

The war in Iraq has as much to do with terrorism as the administration has to do with compassion.

Whenever government proposes to get involved in the regulation of trade, just be very, very careful about who's behind this proposal, what their motives are.

It is like we are obliged to assume that the government is only doing what it says it is doing.

I don't think the British or American governments really want to fight the Islamic State. They just want to look as if they are doing so.

It is a virtual reflex for governments to plead security concerns when they undertake any controversial action, often as a pretext for something else.

Perhaps the most important reason to be skeptical of government inflation numbers is that the government, like a fox campaigning to guard a hen house, has many reasons to be disingenuous. As the world's largest debtor, the Federal Government is inflation's primary beneficiary.

We shouldn't assume that government is always trying to do the wrong thing.

The Gulf War was a clear precedent as well, and it let us begin to understand how the US government would go to war to secure strategic oil reserves and potential markets.

What is the U.S. government looking for? And the elite governing this country? They're looking for oil.

A small acquaintance with history shows that all governments are selfish and the French governments more selfish than most.